A new great talk of @PREWArAs_ERC seminar series: on Monday 9 April (8.30 Sala Bortolami @Dissgea), Dmitar Tasić (Università Federico II – Napoli) will give a paper on “Paramilitaries and forging new identities in the Ottoman Balkans 1903-1912”

Despite the conventional image of the Belle Époque as a time of peace, progress and optimism, the twenty years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War were a period in which the practice of organised violence was part of everyday life for thousands and thousands of male European men. Genuine paramilitary corps

The two-day workshop on “Violence and the History of Italy. Cultures and Practices of Violence” will gather together established scholars and young researchers to discuss the mutual interplay between violent practices and political cultures since the unification of Italy. From brigandage in Southern Italy to terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, the participants will analyse the ways through which violent

The two-day workshop on “Violence and the History of Italy. Cultures and Practices of Violence” will gather together established scholars and young researchers to discuss the mutual interplay between violent practices and political cultures since the unification of Italy. From brigandage in Southern Italy to terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s, the participants will analyse the ways through which violent